Well so much for the corpse and levee bored's mantra "There's a state law...There's a state law"...
It seems now that there actually is no state law that says you can steal the property of Louisiana citizens.

Haa Haa Haa....you posters are something. you call these property owners selfish and greedy. Then you say take their property, no due process, no compensation, just TAKE (steal) it to protect my property from flooding again. Take someone elses property to keep mine safe....Now who's the greedy one??? How can you expect someone to care about your own house flooding when you show such disregard for other people's property?

And how will be safer. If the corpse had their way and their was no legal opposition, you'd have a levee that still has the earth removed from the inside wall, a very flimsy situation, with no plans to address it at all, you'd have a wide inspection area with no one inspecting anything (see tuffcookie's post above) they can't even find the leaks that they caused in the area that they already control? How does this make the city safer?

2. A 24/7 right of way where a land owner has no use of the land is not an easement or servitude, or a right of way it's a taking.

3....nor shall the government take private property for public use without paying just compensation.

Nutty Acorn: slab monkey said it best...If you had attended the meetings instead of sitting at home posting uninformed opinions you would know that the corps actually said that the tree and fence reomval program does nothing to improve flood protection. It's just a very economical way (stealing always is cheaper...it's free!) of making the population THINK that they got better flood protection. They acknowledged that the many ways of lining the canal that are available to them would fix the problem but it cost more. Trees didn't cause the failure the Corpse's allowing the S&WB to dredge the soil away from the inside side of the wall was the cause of the failure. Therefore is only go's to make sense that the fix is putting something back in the place of that soil. The Corpse acknowledged that also.

How can a city that is a complete and total failure at maintaining it's streets hold the property owners of the houses on those very same deplorable streets accountable for the condition of their houses? It sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.